The International Student Association ( Misa ) Lounge On The Second Floor Of Coffman Union

Have you ever felt left out or pushed away from others? In the novel, The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander. I chose to write about the main character Josh Bell. Josh Bell is a caring, immature and athletic teen who, through a series of trials comes of age. Josh Bell is caring because in the book it says, “ Tell him a joke.

Establishing a good rapport with you, showing you respect, listening carefully and speaking clearly and in language you can understand would have contributed to the effectiveness of the interaction.

After my interview with a former security officer at the 9/11 memorial, I learned a whole new perspective of the site. In comparison to what I had observed in my short time there, my informant, Ricky who worked the site for years was able to give me an insight on what I was not able to observe. At first, I was hesitant to bother my friend for an interview since I knew he was busy with his own family or even work. My plan was to interview officers at the memorial while they were on the job during my lunch break. After getting denied by countless officers at the memorial, I gave up and sent Ricky a message on FaceBook, asking if he had time this week for a couple of questions about his time spent working at the memorial. Since I have known him since I was a child along with his brother, without hesitation, he agreed and invited me to watch our favorite show “The Walking Dead” at his house on Sunday. I arrived at his house and I treated his family to dinner as a way of saying thanks for helping me with my assignment. However, during my interview, I didn’t feel like it was much of a formal interview, instead, I felt like it was more of a friend to friend conversation about his past experiences at a job. (I was literally laying down on his couch, petting his cat while interviewing him questions off my laptop).

As the end of the week approaching, I was getting nervous with conducting my one on one interview with Officer Alexander. Mr. Alexander is a cousin to one of my good friends, but I never met him before. The interview was scheduled Saturday February 18, 2017 to sit at Café Café on Clearview for breakfast. Mr. Alexander was not able to make it to Café Café, so he asked if I may meet him at home with his family. My friend offer to take me to her cousin’s house because I was not sure if that was a good idea. Upon arrival to Officer Alexander’s house he was outside washing his truck, and smoking a cigar. Which, I may add was not a pleasing smell to my nose for about fifteen minutes. After being introduced he asked his

The first topic Tommy and I discussed was his family life. Tommy is 17 years old, and lives in Greensburg. He has lived here for 5 years. He has moved 2 different times to Irwin and Greensburg. Tommy has a pet pitbull named Jax. He has the best relationship with his dad because that is who he lives with.

I chose David Quiroz as an interviewee do to his residential experience living in Boys Town during his youth. He is a 48-year-old Hispanic man who prefers to be referred to as he/him. I met him in my tour of Boys Town on Halsted, I initially approached him asking him if he was familiar with the area? He answered in a friendly manner that he previously lived there in his youth and where did I need direction to. I introduced myself and asked if I can take a couple of minutes of his time to answer a few questions regarding the community, since I was doing a community assessment for educational purposes. So, I asked him his name and mentioned I’d only use his initials for confidentiality and to voice his stake for the community. He responded and

I conducted an interview with George Phillips, a sociology professor at the University of Central Florida. I held the interview on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at Noon. I chose to interview him because my topic deals with the interactions of people and studying their social behaviors which is a sociology topic. I emailed him to ask him for a time to interview and then set up the interview for a time while I wasn’t working and that he said would work for him. I made sure I had permission to record the interview and then sat down with him to get his responses. I asked 5 questions on his opinions of student’s social habits in relation to video streaming. We discussed how he has seen student’s social lives change because of the availability of

The person I interviewed for this assignment was Professor Steve Rivera. He is a professor at Christian Brothers University (CBU). Mr. Rivera is the department chair for the adult program and the department chair in the psychology department for CBU. He has a bachelor’s degree, -EdD in Counseling Education Supervision, and is a Licensed School Counselor. The interview took place in Mr. Rivera’s office at Christian Brothers on June 17, 2016 at approximately 1:30 P.M. We decided to meet there due to the limited time we had since he had summer classes later on that day. Even though Mr. Rivera had a desk in his office, he set two chair aside for the interview so we could be face to face instead of him being on one side of the desk and me on the other. His approach told me that he was very excited and motivated to help me with this project. After going to the MSU counseling center and emailing the only counselors that could be available, I could not arrange an interview with any of them. Not finding anybody in Starkville I called the counseling center at the University for Women in Columbus, MS only to find out that both of the counselors there were already booked for our class. A conversation about my project then started between a close friend of mine that goes to CBU. I mentioned that I had not been able to find an available counselor to interview. To my luck she mentioned that her professor from the previous semester was a counselor. She gave me his contact

Yesterday, we all filed into class and took our seats. We noticed there was a video call on the screen. The video call was different from the original interview but it was easier to talk over the screen that separated us. He looked a tad uncomfortable at first but in a way, he was also very relaxed to have all of these random people he had never seen before staring at him. His name was Cullen Chaffin, he is 20, and is studying theater to become an actor. Each student from a group went up to ask him a few questions. He was amused of how awkward we all were while trying to interrogate him about his acting life.

This person is an inspiration to CBHS, a senior who always has a smile on his face, and is an extremely good guy. His name is Jake, and he has impacted this community so much. Now, how did l learn all of this, I interviewed him. The day of the interview, we met up in Mr. Bernstein's room. Jake and I left the room and walked downstairs, finding a place to start the interview. We found a bench on the first floor, light coming in from the glass windows and doors. The only sounds are light background chatting, the hum of the vending machine, and the buzz and opening of the front door. We both seemed excited, but Jake seems nervous, it's hard to tell. We sat on the bench as I set up the iPad for the interview.

During the process of planning my interviews, I decided that I needed to choose the interviewees from a location of diversity and I felt that my own college peers would be perfect for the task. The first interviewer I chose was a professor of the college, Jose Hernandez age 42, born and raised in El Salvador. Professor Hernandez had lived in El Salvador until the age of 13 when his parents made the decision to move to the United States to ensure that their children would receive better education and opportunities. Once making it the U.S., he had to learn to read, write, and speak English and has now made it as a successful Spanish Professor at Kennesaw State University. Professor Hernandez and I decided to reserve a time during his office hours to meet. We met around noon and the interview lasted for about forty minutes. From the interviews I had done, I received the most information and personal

Athletics played a large role in my life growing up. During my senior year of high school, I transferred to a new school where I intended to play football. However, during the last practice before the season started, I developed a stress fracture which caused me to miss our first four games. I was a few inches taller than six feet, and weighed around two hundred and twenty pounds, which made me one of the biggest guys at the small private school I attended. The time I spent recovering from my injury provided ample time for me to ponder what I would learn from the experience. My brother is three years older than me, which allowed me to have relationships with individuals who were living my potential future. I began to seek advice from friends

One of the people who I chose to interview from my subculture of people with siblings who have developmental disabilities is my roommate Hannah Dorough. Hannah and I had met briefly before coming to school at various events through the University Honors Program before we truly introduced ourselves at SOAR at the beginning of June. Since then, we have become close friends throughout our time spent living together in our dorm room. I interviewed Hannah in our dorm room this past Sunday after I got back to school from my weekend at home. We were sitting in the living space of our room that we share with two other girls when I interviewed her about her five-year-old half-sister named Bethany, who has autism. Hannah sat on the arm of the couch while I sat on the couch cushions because that is where we both prefer to sit, even when we are just hanging out around the room. Hannah moved throughout the kitchen area and living space, as well as venturing into her room and bathroom when she received a call from her boyfriend, Alex, during the interview. I, however, remained in my spot on the couch for the interview 's duration. I chose to interview Hannah in our dorm room because the setting was comfortable for both of us because we live there. However, there were a few distractions in our room because my other roommates and a few friends were over at the same time, so they were having their own conversations at the same time. Despite these distractions, I feel that our interview was

Josh was drafted in the 1999 draft as the number one overall pick by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and signed a $3.96 million dollar bonus straight out of high school (Hamilton, 187). He was playing ball and doing extremely well. He had his family support and was growing into quite the individual. Eventually, however, when a few incidents were placed upon him, he folded and turned to a terrible place to find happiness. He did things he never thought of doing before from drinking to smoking weed and eventually becoming a major crack addict. He got in with the wrong crowd and could not get out of the hold it had on him and was on his way to ruining everything. He spent all his money on drugs and alcohol and was very close to killing himself from the drugs he was taking. He had a family at the time and he distanced himself from them to a point where his wife wanted nothing to do with him. Life was falling apart for the once nationally renowned phenomena. It wasn’t until he was pushed to the brink that he began trying to get to rehab and fix his addictions. He

Matt’s season had started in the middle of October. He was so excited, because basketball was a sport he loved. He was an excellent shooter when it came to basketball. His three’s were usually drained, without no problem. He was ready for basketball to start. He usually played point guard. He went to all of the practices and was ready for the basketball season to start. He was so hyped on the day he walked into the doors at school. He was so excited to kick off the season vs. El paso-Gridley. After school ended the basketball team had gone to Michael's to eat before the game. After eating they stopped at BP for some Gatorade. After BP it was time to come back to the school to get ready. During warm ups before the game,